From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licence of ts-comint Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1502621936.3273210.1071832168.58C017A8@webmail.messagingengine.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503420282 19356 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2017 16:44:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 16:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jean.christophe.helary@gmail.com, jostein@kjonigsen.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 22 18:44:38 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dkCI1-0004NE-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 18:44:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkCI7-00068l-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBn3-0005aK-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBn2-0006SK-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBmq-0006L2-7q; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dkBmp-0007zD-PB; Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:12:15 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 21 Aug 2017 13:21:41 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217689 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think the GPL ultimately ends up pushing companies in that direction, > whereas Open Source This seems to be an instance of a widespread misuderstanding about the definition of "open source". All the important free software licenses are also open source licenses, and that includes the GNU GPL. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html for a full explanation of this. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.